[BUG?] Unknown character on 3.1.0 and 3.1.1

[Jana Babovakova]

Dear Tyrasuki,

thank you for letting us know. We will look into that.

Kind regards,
Jana

Jana Babovakova (she/her) | BIRD Tech Support | CZ.NIC, z.s.p.o.

On 20. 05. 25 18:47, Tyrasuki via Bird-users wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I am experiencing bird throwing a <FATAL> Unknown character error on 
> my configuration files.
> I suspect this might be related to CRLF vs LF, as all the positions it 
> reports unknown character seems to be EOL or blank spaces. I should 
> mention I am currently writing my configuration on a Windows machine, 
> but it has passed between Linux and Windows a couple times.
>
> As an example, trying to start BIRD 3.1.0 on an Alpine Linux edge box 
> gives the following:
>
> ns2:~# bird
> bird: 2025-05-20 18:39:55.659 [0001] <FATAL> 
> /etc/bird.d/defines/constants.def:2:31 Unknown character
> ns2:~# head /etc/bird.d/defines/constants.def
> # Local preference values
> define LP_UPSTREAM      = 100;
> define LP_PEER          = 200;
> define LP_DOWNSTREAM    = 300;
> define LP_OTHER         = 150;
> # ASNs
> define AS_SELF          = 209718;
> define AS_BOGON         = [
>    0,
> ns2:~#
>
> if I merge the second line with the first line to look like this:
> define LP_UPSTREAM      = 100;define LP_PEER          = 200;
>
> I get
>
> ns2:~# bird
> bird: 2025-05-20 18:41:02.547 [0001] <FATAL> 
> /etc/bird.d/defines/constants.def:2:61 Unknown character
>
> Similarly, on another box running Debian 12 with the pkg.labs.nic.cz 
> repository, on BIRD 3.1.1:
> bird3:~# bird
> bird: 2025-05-20 18:42:01.451 [0001] <FATAL> /etc/bird/bird.conf:1:26 
> Unknown character
> bird3:~# head /etc/bird/bird.conf
> router id 172.30.187.148;
>
> log "/var/log/bird.log" { error };
>
> ipv6 table master6;
> ipv4 table master4;
>
> include "filters/netlist/*.list";
> include "filters/AS.list";
> include "define/*.def";
> bird3~#
>
> Any suggestions would be welcome, as I am currently in the process of 
> refractoring my routers from BIRD1 to BIRD3, and this has put me at a 
> bit of a standstill. :)
>
> Kind regards, and thank you in advance for any response,
> Jori Vanneste / Tyrasuki
>

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